Trial is over! I’m coming atcha live and direct from the bloggerdome with a sweet defense verdict in my pocket. Yup, yup! [cue music] [cue music] And what do I come back to? A precedential Third Circuit opinion discussing an employee’s right to return to work from FMLA. I’ll cover…
Last day of trial today. Big blog post tomorrow. I promise. #nopromises.
Be back tomorrow.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on a number of protected classes. Sexual orientation isn’t one of those protected classes specifically listed in the statute. So, if an employee complains about sexual-orientation harassment and is later fired because she complained, then that won’t create…
*** whistles *** The word on the street according to Kevin McGowan at Bloomberg/BNA (here $$$) is that U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Jacqueline A. Berrien (D) has decided not to seek renomination to the EEOC. Originally an Obama recess-appointment, the Senate confirmed Ms. Berrien as EEOC Chair in…
Filed under: duh! More on this one after the jump… * * * Let’s assume that you have an employee who commits a terminable offense. For example, in Martins v. Rhode Island Hospital, surveillance cameras and the Hospital’s employee ID swipe system suggested that Martins left work for approximately four…
If a picture says a thousand words, then my editors are going to be hella-mad at me. After the jump, it’s the best of the employment law blogosphere told through the eyes of Instagram. * * * (Yes, I am that lazy. Although, apparently, I did exceed my word count.…
A bill that would have made it illegal for New Jersey companies to refuse to hire a job candidate because of his/her employment status is dead for now. Find out why after the jump… * * * Last week, New Jersey banned the box. However, Bob Jordan at the Cherry…
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board issued this memorandum in which it has instructed regional offices to encourage employees to file complaints with the United States Department of Labor if the the regional NLRB office “believes that an employer may have violated a substantive or anti-retaliation provision of [OSHA]…
I was reading this recent CareerBuilder survey, which reports that 58% of employers have caught a lie on a resumé. (Most popular lie: skills embellishment). As, CareerBuilder is apt to do, the survey contained a section of some of the most outlandish lies ever caught on a resumé. Some that…